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Hybrid Manufacturing and Experimental Testing of Glass Fiber Enhanced Thermoplastic Composites

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posted on 2023-07-26, 14:50 authored by Javaid Butt, Yasasween Hewavidana, Vahaj Mohaghegh, Shabnam Sadeghi Esfahlani, Hassan Shirvani
Additive Manufacturing (AM) is gaining enormous attention from academic and industrial sectors for product development using different materials. Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM) is a popular AM method that works with thermoplastics. This process offers benefits of customisation both in terms of hardware and software in the case of desktop-based FDM systems. Enhancement of mechanical properties for the traditional thermoplastic material is a widely researched area and various materials have been added to achieve this goal. This paper focuses on the manufacture of glass fiber reinforced plastic (GFRP) composites using Hybrid Fused Deposition Modelling (HFDM). Commonly available polylactic acid or polylactide (PLA) material was inter-laced with 0.03 mm thick glass fiber sheets to manufacture GFRP products followed by tensile testing. This was done to investigate whether adding more layers increases the tensile strength of the GFRP products or not. Furthermore, the maximum number of glass fiber layers that can be added to the 4 mm thick specimen was also identified. This was done to demonstrate that there is an optimal number of glass fiber layers that can be added as after this optimal number, the tensile strength start to deteriorate. Microstructural analysis was undertaken after tensile testing followed by ultrasonic testing to assess the uniformity of the GFRP composites.

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Refereed

  • Yes

Volume

3

Issue number

4

Page range

96

Publication title

Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing

ISSN

2504-4494

Publisher

MDPI

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  • Published version

Language

  • eng

Legacy posted date

2020-01-07

Legacy creation date

2020-01-07

Legacy Faculty/School/Department

Faculty of Science & Engineering

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